On Nov 26, 2006, at 6:12 PM, M Roget wrote:
If the benchmark for a community ban is being lowered
then the ban
should
not be indefinite but no more than a year. If there's a desire to
make the
ban permanent the community should ask the ArbComm to extend it.
Indefinite bans are like sentencing a criminal to life imprionment
without
parole - it encouraged ban evasion and bad behaviour and does
nothing to
rehabilitate or encourage compliance.
Michel
The Arbitration Committee limits bans to one year.
Fred